Hablando Espanol
Thursday, February 28th, 2008Spanish translations for Cisco are provided by my good friend, Victor Aragon. I’m afraid I can only hope he’s doing a good job. Sadly, the only Spanish I know are curse words which, despite how they’re portrayed in today’s comic, are actually different in other languages.
Unfortunately, knowing swear words in another language isn’t really as cool as you might think, although the story of how I learned to swear in Spanish is a good one. I went straight into the service out of high school and was stationed down near San Diego for a couple of years. While down there, I shared a room with a guy from Fresno named Craig who was Latino, and the Corporal who was in charge of me at the shop where I worked, a guy named Lewie, was also Latino. I had the bright idea to get Craig to teach me some cuss words so when Lewie was yelling at me in Spanish, I could say something back. It worked great the first time I tried it. Lewie’s eyes were huge he was so surprised. When I told him Craig had taught me what to say, he taught me some more, uh, Spanish to tell Craig when I got back to our rooms. This went back and forth a couple times with me learning new things to say until one day I said something I was told to say to Lewie that started him laughing really hard. Apparently, I was saying that I could perform a certain anatomically impossible act upon myself and how much I enjoyed that act. It was pretty funny, I guess, but it marked the end of my quest to learn Spanish. 
Note: Sorry the title for this post isn’t quite correct. Apparently, the font that I choose for the titles on my website doesn’t speak Español either.
February 28th, 2008 at 1:47 am
Trade, just wanted to tell you how much i enjoy the comic. I found it a long time back when you were on your first story, and came back for the current one, but then sadly got away from it for awhile. Found it again tonight and read through the archives and all the blog posts.
Thanks for such a great comic. I’m loving the art and and also the photoshop tutorials (as well as how you create the whole comic). I even learned something new when you were talking about the lock transparent pixels button. I’ve been using photoshop for almost 7 years now and never bothered to find out what that did so thanks!
Looking forward to more!
February 28th, 2008 at 3:20 am
I speak a small bit of Spanish and understand a bit more. As far as I can tell, the translations are pretty close.
March 1st, 2008 at 12:48 am
Hey David, thanks for the note on the Spanish. I’ll do my best to get them as close as I can.
Hey Matt, thanks for the nice comments. I appreciate it, and it’s great to hear that I provided a little Photoshop tip for you. There’s so much to those darn Adobe programs (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc) that you can work with them for years and years and still be finding out new stuff.
And don’t be sad about being away from Zip and Li’l Bit for awhile. A lot of people tell me that they like to wait and read it all at once in big chunks. I guess that’s good because that means they’re enjoying it as a story… at least I hope that’s the case.
March 1st, 2008 at 2:22 pm
I enjoy the weekly strips it brightens up my week. But I’m hoping for the Zip and Li’l Bit publication so I can enjoy it as one, now two stories in wonderful printed color whenever I please. Any updates on that endeavor?
March 1st, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Hey Kelly. That’s awesome. That’s really the nicest thing you can say about Zip and Li’l BIt.
Unfortunately, when it comes to the print side of these comics I’m afraid I’m really a bonehead. The time that I have to work on this strip, I spend writing and drawing these stories instead of being smart with them and getting them out to everyone in book format. I’m a horrible business guy, I know. I’m totally confident that they will see publication in print at some point, I just don’t see it happening in the near future. When something does develop though, I’ll definitely let you know.
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:18 pm
Me no hablo espanol. Hablas ingles, por favor?Im learning spainish now, and i really find it hard, because i was put in the advance class when i started learning it, so the first year went to fast for me. *sigh*